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The Tightening String [Hardcover]

Ann Bridge (Author)

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Book Description

Publication Date: June 1962

This novel records the lives of a group of English diplomats in Budapest from the Spring of 1940, up to the entry of the Germans which compels them to leave in Easter 1941. Crossing the Russian frontier en route for Moscow and the U.S.A., an episode at once dramatic and distinctly comic, sees the characters' main pre-occupation as less about their own predicament than the desperate and sustained endeavour to send food and clothing to the 44,000 British prisoners-of-war in Germany, during those first months when no Red Cross Parcels from England reached the camps. A touching love-story, a personal tragedy, and a disconcerting glimpse of treachery are skilfully interwoven in this revealing book.

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Product Details

Hardcover
Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx); First Edition edition (June 1962)
ISBN-10: 9997549635
ISBN-13: 978-9997549631
Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.9 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,391,580 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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